Improvement in monuments



UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN N. WALLIS, OF FLEMING, AND THEODORE WALLIS, OF SCIPIO,

ASSIGNORS TO THEMSELVES AND JAMES A. MOORE, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. I 69,75 1, dated November 9, 1875; application filed September 1-7, 1875.

To all whom it may concern: support a cap, F, of granite, on which is :1. Be it known that we, JOHN N. WALLIS, of hollow shaft of thick strong glass, G, which Fleming, in the county of Cayuga and State is surmounted by a cap, H, that may be taken of New York, and THEODORE .WALLIS, of off to open the shaft for putting in flowers, Scipio, in the county of Cayuga and State/of names, 850., and on the top of the cup is an or- New York, have invented a new and Improved namcntal sphere, I, of glass or other approved Monument, of which the following is a specimaterial. fication: The panels D may be made of mirrors, if Our invention consists of a novel construcpreferred, and the ball I may be a reflector, tion of memorial monuments, of stone and variegated glass, or other ornamental object. glass, to make finer and more ornamental Having thus described our invention, we structures, and also to provide inclosed chamclaim as'new and desire to secure by Letters bers for the preservation of flowers and other Patentobjects. A'monument consisting of the stone base Figurel is an elevation of our improved AB, posts G,g1ass panels D, connected by monument. Fig. 2 is a section on line a .70, cross-pieces E, cap F, glass shaft G, dletachaand Fig. 3 is a section on line y y. ble cap H, and ball I, as shown and described.

Similar letters of" reference indicate corre- JOHN N. WALLIS.

sponding parts. 1 THEODORE WALLIS.

A B represents a base of blue granite or Witnesses as to J. N. WALLIS:

other enduring stone. on which are four cor- WILMON W. BLAOKMAR,

ner-posts, O, of the same or any other stone, JAMES F. ROCHE.

said posts being grooved to receive glass pen- Witnesses as to THEODORE WALLIS:

els D, which are also connected at top and HORACE T. COOK,

bottom with cross-pieces E. These posts also JAMES A. MOORE. 

